I've been trying to get into Korean historical dramas for about the past week. Notice the trying to. I figured I would pick something related to what I am supposed to be studying, so I picked "Queen Seondeok" (ė ëėŽė) due to its time period (it is supposed to be set in Silla, or at least what TV producers believed Silla was like). Unfortunately this has not been working out.
First is the fact that like anything on television, it takes liberties with reality. I think I got through one episode before realizing I was too bored to pay attention long enough to what was happening. I imagine there are some cultural differences I am not picking up on in the subtitles and my year of studying Korean did not exactly equip me to notice intricacies the subtitles happened to have missed.
I guess I could switch to modern day dramas about young people falling in love and living in the city. This is if I can get passed screaming about the patriarchal heteronormativity.
No comments:
Post a Comment